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For my trip to Mallorca and the Italy trip I've used Medicspot for my Covid tests - all 5 of them. No links to them, just a customer, but while they're far from the cheapest they've been reliable and quick so far. The pre-departure test and the pre-return-to-the-UK tests were done with a lateral flow test which you register and photograph, and they send you a certificate. Seems to work well.
Interesting that for Mallorca, a pre-departure LFT test is enough. For Germany, you need a PCR test (and I thought that was standard, didn't realise Spain had laxer rules).
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Spain didn't require any test to get into the country if you're double-vaccinated, hence why I've done 5 tests rather than 6. So far I've done:
Mallorca: Lateral flow test before flying back to the UK (UK requirement), PCR for Day 2 test (UK requirement).
Italy: Lateral flow test before flying out (Italian requirement), lateral flow test before flying back (UK requirement), PCR test for Day 2 test (UK requirement).Just waiting on the results of my Day 2 test after flying back from Italy, but I used one of my spare lateral flow tests yesterday and it was negative, so fingers crossed.
Happily I didn't have to quarantine when I arrived in Italy (I arrived just before they got rid of the need for quarantine for people travelling from the UK) as the event I was doing was classified as a National Sporting Event, so I was exempt from quarantine under the elite athletes rule. Somewhat ironically.
Edited to add: Also didn't need a test when I popped briefly into Switzerland on Thursday, going down the Umbrail pass before heading to the bottom of Stelvio. Cos Schengen.
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For Cyrpus (unless my reading comprehension is as bad as recently evinced on this thread) you don't need any pre-departure or post-arrival testing at all if double jabbed. Just the pre-dep LFT and day 2 PCR upon return.
Brommers
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Yes, although I believe that the reference to '3 days' in the guidance actually means 72 hours, so you'd have to do the test on Sunday after the time when you'd be returning on the Wednesday in order for it to be valid for the return journey. Or do it on Monday.
Yep. Have fun with those. Doing the UK one really boiled my piss. You have to fill in your passport number, and then they ask when it expires, despite the fact that the government department receiving the form is the same department which issued the fucking passport in the first place, so they really ought to know.
Having got back from Italy on Sunday, my other top tips would be: